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Whereupon he summoned him, and said, It is plain enough, now, that she is thy wife, why didst thou pretend she was thy sister? I was afraid, he answered, that she might be the cause of my death. (Genesis 26, 9)
What is this trick thou hast played on us? said Abimelech. One of my people might easily have dishonoured thy wife, and so thou wouldst have led us into grievous guilt. Then he issued his command to all his people, (Genesis 26, 10)
In this country, Isaac began growing crops; and in that first year they yielded a hundredfold; such was the Lord’s blessing on him. (Genesis 26, 12)
Thus he became rich, and went on prospering more and more, until he rose to great influence; (Genesis 26, 13)
flocks of sheep were his, and herds of cattle, and a great retinue. And now the Philistines, out of envy, (Genesis 26, 14)
stopped up all the wells which the servants of his father Abraham had dug there, filling them in with earth. (Genesis 26, 15)
Here he opened afresh other wells, dug by his father Abraham’s servants, and stopped up long since by the Philistines, when Abraham died; calling them by the old names his father had given them. (Genesis 26, 18)
While they were thus digging in the valley, they came upon running water; (Genesis 26, 19)
but here, too, the herdsmen of Gerara disputed the rights of Isaac’s herdsmen, and claimed the water as their own. So he called the well, in memory of what had happened, the False Claim. (Genesis 26, 20)
And at last, when he had gone further on and dug another well, over which they did not dispute with him, he called it Freedom; Now at last, he said, the Lord has given us freedom to spread over the land. (Genesis 26, 22)
From there he went to Bersabee; (Genesis 26, 23)
and here, the same night, he had a vision of the Lord, who said to him, I am the God of thy father Abraham; fear nothing, I am with thee. I mean to bless thee, and give increase to thy posterity, in reward of Abraham’s true service. (Genesis 26, 24)
